Quotes About Knowledge

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The best of humanity is philosophy.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.